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Rosemary Amponsah is training to become a welder at the Rural Enterprises Project in Bechem in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana.

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Africa's Changemakers

They’re not presidents and policymakers; they’re not rich and famous …

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Generation Unlimited

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Generation Unlimited

World leaders unite under new initiative to provide quality education and training for young people

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Asanto Mohammed, 7, attends the 1st grade class at Oda Aneso Primary School 10 April, 2014. There are 152 students in the class due to lack of classroom and teachers.

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Generation 2030: Africa

Prioritizing investments in children to reap the demographic dividend

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A Speaker on Stage at World Children's Day 2017

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The Africa WE Want

African youth share their vision of the Africa THEY want

On 11 August 2018, a member of UNICEF’s Ebola outreach team addresses children in Ebola-hit Beni in North Kivu in The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, DRC

A new outbreak in the northeast region

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On 30 May 2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, students attending primary School “Vie Nouvelle” in Wangata neighbourhood must wash their hands and then have their temperature screened with a UNICEF-provided infrared thermometer before entering the school, in order to reduce the risk of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) transmission in Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur Province.

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Ebola outbreak in Equateur Province, DRC

The latest information on the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and the response of the government, UNICEF and their partners

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